Ep. 17: James Rohrbach Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2012
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is James Rohrbach. Rohrbach has been trading for 40 years, created his RIX index, and runs an educational service at Investment-Models.com. While he calls himself a "market timer", he's a trend follower.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Why buy and hold is dead, and the psychology behind people desperately clinging onto it
- Why - even when buy and hold supplies a winning outcome - it still might not be a good strategy
- Using a 15/30 day crossover as a quick and simple system
- Why Rohrbach doesn't short
- Making sure your feelings don't overrule your process
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | So today on the show I have Jim Roerbach, and Jim and I have known each other for a few years and Jim is, I think, I've always think of there's like kind of running in parallel. |
| 0:45.2 | You have those folks that call themselves trend followers and then, you know, folks that call themselves market timers. |
| 0:51.4 | But the reality is, yeah're kind of the same thing. |
| 0:54.6 | Anyways, Jim has long called himself a market timer, and he was kind enough many years ago, |
| 0:59.5 | actually it wasn't that many years ago, that he appeared by film, broke the New American Dream, |
| 1:03.3 | and had some classic one-liners in there. And so anyways, I think we're having a fun conversation |
| 1:07.9 | today. Jim has got a little bit of experience on us. I think you just, did you just turn 33, Jim? How old are you? |
| 1:13.8 | I think I hit 81, but I'm not sure. My memory is slipping. |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah, I don't think it's really slipping, but so let me, let me jump right in. |
| 1:24.8 | Hold on, did you say 81 or 83? |
| 1:27.3 | 81. 81. So you say 81 or 83? 81. |
| 1:28.1 | 81. |
| 1:28.9 | So you've got a little bit more experience at this game than some of us. |
| 1:34.5 | And so when did you get started, Jim? |
| 1:37.9 | Well, I've been doing this for 40 years. |
| 1:41.7 | And the sad thing is I can't look forward to doing it for 40 more. Why? Well, I don't know. |
| 1:49.2 | That would make me 121. They're going to fix these aging problems soon, Jim. I'm convinced. |
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